On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:44:53PM -0800, Leo Mauler wrote:
So I stopped Kino, and deleted the temp file it had created. The problem is that the temp file didn't go away. I did "ls -lahR | less" and checked all the filesizes, and nothing was 7.9GB or anywhere near that size. Processes attached to my account were crashing all over the place, since they couldn't save their config files.
Eventually I had to reboot and that fixed the problem, but I wanted to know if anyone knew of a solution that didn't require rebooting?
Some process still had the file open (probably a sub-process of kino). If you had known that you could have killed that process. Rebooting fixed the problem by killing the process. fuser is a command line program that you can use to find out what processes have a file open. You need to do this before removing the file, obviously.
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